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Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet are the married helmers of Tribeca Film Festival's Beneath the Harvest Sky, a gritty glimpse at deep friendship and small town ennui in the backdrop of small-town Maine. The film is a searingly authentic tribute to an area long overlooked by Hollywood's all-too narrow focus on big stories in big places, and one that shows the directors' commitment to truly capturing a subject down its smallest minutiae. We got a chance to talk to the two directors about how married life influences art, why comparisons to Superbad are always welcome, and why the kids of today are in deep need of a good, old-fashioned coming of age film.
I can't remember the last movie I saw that took place in Maine, but the location is a vivid part of this story. Can you explain the choice of setting?
Aron Gaudet: I’m from Maine. We moved to Maine to make the movie. I grew up about four hours south of where the movie took place. And in the 26 years that I grew up and lived there, never went to that area in Maine. Because there’s just potato farms and there’s not a lot to do there. You never had reason. Four hours south and you’re in Boston so you’d always choose south.
What is it about this place that you felt deserved a story?
Aron: We were definitely wanting to make a coming of age movie like we grew up with, like Stand By Me, or The Outsiders or something, and what I knew about northern Maine and the kids in northern Maine is that they turn 18 and they just want to get the hell out of northern Maine because there’s no opportunities there for them unless they’re a farmer or from a farming family. So we just stumbled across these photos of a potato harvest in northern Maine and were like, "Oh, it’s really beautiful up there. Maybe that could be a setting for that kind of story we want to tell." So we just went up there to see what was up there and kind of fell in love with the area and the people and then felt like, okay there’s definitely a great setting for a story.
Gita Pullapilly: And we have a documentary background, so the year and a half we wrote the script, we were researching through the entire period as well, and that really helped us because we could really get a sense of what each of these groups of people were going through and what their backstories were. The illegal prescription drug trade between Canada and Maine, we never would have thought if we just stayed in New York and started writing the story, but by spending so much time and doing the research, we were kind of surprised and taken aback at just how prevalent the illegal prescription drug trade at the time was. It started to weave into the story in a profound way for us.
Aron: Even in pre-production, our location manager who was from there, he had a location for Aidan Gillen’s character’s sort of garage that he was smuggling drugs through. He was like “oh I got this great place” Before we could use it, the actual guy that lived there got arrested for smuggling cocaine through it. So then we were like, "Okay the location is out, but the authenticity is there."
It clearly would have been a good idea.
Gita: Great location manager.
Aron: Things like that would happen where we’re just like “Okay, this is happening up here." It’ s very much based in reality.
Gita: And we were curious what people in northern Maine would think of the movie and we’re blown away by the response because they’re like “You guys nailed what our life is like up there.” It’s almost like the biggest compliment for us because it’s just like yeah we represented that community and there voice as well as we could.
In making a movie that deals with something as serious as illegal drug trafficking, were you hoping to call attention to it, or were you more interested in simply telling a good story?
Aron: The documentarians in us always think, if there are any social issues in a movie, it can at least open discussions about stuff like that. I think, for us, we went up there thinking, okay we’re gonna do a coming of age movie set during a potato harvest, and then there was so much of this stuff happening that I was like “Oh this is part of the story.” And also, the documentarians in us were like, "Okay, this is where the story goes." This is what’s happening here, this is what life is like, so it just naturally became part of the story.
Gia: I don’t know if you saw our first film, A Way to Get By, it’s a documentary. In that film, obviously there are social issues, but even as a documentary filmmakers, we never like to hit you over the head with a social issue. We’ve always felt that the best stories are the ones where you discover things through the story and the audience can make their own assumptions and judgments through what they feel in the movie. that I think in any form of movie that we make will always be with us, just the subtlety. I think subtlety is so much more powerful sometimes than trying to force it down your throat.
Is there anything that you were hoping, specifically in regards to how this sort of lifestyle is affecting the youth, that people take away from this film?
Aron: What we really liked was that it was a unique setting. The story could only happen there, but for the kids, it felt like it was universal for a lot of kids growing up in rural towns anywhere across the country, and the stuff they’re dealing with. You hear about the same sort of stuff in small towns in Vermont or small towns in the Midwest. It’s interesting to me what kids go through as they’re becoming adults, and a lot of times they find themselves in very adult situations, but they’re 17 and they’re still not sure how to best handle them. I think that makes for good drama.
Gia: I love the idea of loyalty and trust, and I think it’s almost in its purest form in those teenage years where you would do anything for your best friend. I think that’s why we resonate with Stand By Me and The Outsiders. It’s that bond that you have with your buddies that you’d do anything for. And we just felt like those movies didn’t really exist right now, of the Twilight movies that exist out there.
Aron: The bond will always be broken when your friend turns into a vampire.
Gita: And we were just like, isn’t it a shame that teens our age, the films that we resonated with, don’t have a film in this time period that can resonate with them as well. That to us was almost like a fond memory of what we had, and we kind of wondered, “Does that exist here, and can it exist in the present?”
Saying that, and I mean this in an entirely complimentary way...
Aron: [Laughs] The way you set up that question...
Gita: Yeah, like, is this going to sound that bad?
I'm going to compare it to a movie, and I just wanted to let you know that I love this other movie. The one movie I thought about after watching Beneath the Harvest Sky was Superbad.
Gita: Oh, yeah! We love Superbad.
Aron: Same casting director. Allison Jones cast Superbad and also cast our movie. Because of their friendship, and the love between two guys.
Both movies feature a romance on the margins, that takes a backseat to the central friendship. And the boys don't know what's going to happen after high school. They want to stay together but they're drawn to different things.
Aron: In many ways, both of them end up really being a love story between friends.
Gita: There’s something about Judd Apatow’s style where he can get comedy across, but the difference between his comedies and other comedies is that they actually have a lot of heart to it, and that’s what we love. More than anything, Beneath the Harvest Sky is about the heart and genuine love of two people together. It doesn’t have to be sexual, it can be a different way... This might be your most crazy interview.
A lot of the romantic relationships in this movie go sour, and that occurred to me as was funny when I found out the two of you are married.
Aron: It makes us feel better about our relationship. We tear down everyone else. Look at all these jerks. We’re still together.
Gita: I think it’s so funny, and maybe because we are married, we know the difficulties of what it takes to be married, and how you have to work tremendously at it. Especially with us, we’re around each other 24/7 and we love being around each other 24/7 but marriage is incredibly hard and I think most people, it’s like you put on a façade of what these relationships can be like to the outside world, but in the real world, when you open the door and you walk inside the house, this is what real complex issues are like, these marriages. I think it can really be seen through these teenage perspectives. Aidan Gillen, what was the relationship with father and son? You know there’s this repairing of a relationship happening, but we kind of hint that there was something else more, and you see what Emory’s mom is like, and we have one scene and that’s all you need to know about what this woman would be like.
Aron: I think a lot of times too, people up there are just trying to survive, and their relationships get sacrificed for survival, and it makes Dominic and Casper’s relationship that much stronger where for them, they put their relationship before everything else. A lot of other characters will sacrifice a relationship trying to survive or trying to get ahead.
Gita: When we started researching and we got up there, the first thing we literally, verbally said when we drove up to Aroostook County was, “How do people actually survive in towns like this?”
Aron: So much industry, like mills, close. There were 200 farm families all farming the land up there and now it’s all consolidated and there’s six farm families. At the high school, there used to be 200 kids that graduated each year, and now there’s like 12. So the population has just nosedived as people just left. So it’s like, yeah how are people surviving? You have to drive an hour to work at Wal-Mart or you’re working on a farm, or you’re not working and you’re dealing drugs. You’re figuring out a way to survive.
Gita, are you from a small town as well?
Gita: I’m from South Bend, Indiana. Home of Notre Dame. But South Bend outside of Notre Dame is actually a small town. There are just these small communities. And like, Breaking Away was another movie that we watched.
Aron: That was definitely a reference film for us, and set in Indiana.
Going back to people commenting on the authenticity of the film, did you have any specific guidelines or formulas for representing the town?
Aron: We definitely scoured northern Maine for places that we felt like felt like northern Maine. Even talking with our cinematographer, when we were location scouting, I said something to the effect of “If we don’t need hand sanitizer when we come out of one of these locations, it’s not real enough.” So a lot of these places we’d come out of, you’re in these dusty potato houses, or you’re out in a field. We wanted that earthy, dirty feel, but from a distance you look at it and it’s beautiful because it’s just rolling hills but you get in there and it’s dirty.
Gita: I think that represents the larger look of the film. From the outside, everything is breathtakingly beautiful, but once you get a better look inside, you realize it’s dusty and dirty, and there’s a lot of breaks and cracks in it.
And then you go to Boston, which is so interesting because usually in films like this, kids are trying to escape to New York or LA. It's cool that Boston is treated like nirvana. I've never seen Boston treated that way before.
Aron: That probably comes from my growing up in Maine because I definitely viewed Boston as, “Oh, if I could get to Boston.” I think in northern Maine, they almost don’t see that far. It’s like if we can even get to southern Maine, or if we can get to Boston, it’s like a whole nother world to them. Boston is an eight hour drive from northern Maine, so even that just seems like a world away, and growing up, it was always like, Boston is my town.
Gita: And if you asked anyone from Indiana, it would be Chicago so we definitely felt that. I remember even when we were dating, because we actually worked in television news before we actually started doing film, and we were living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and we were trying to figure out where we wanted to make our next move and live, and Aron was like, "Boston has always been my dream," so we moved to Boston.
Beyond bringing the genre to the present, was there anything about the teen genre or the coming of age story that you thought had been lacking, even in the films you love, something you wanted to get in touch with in Beneath the Harvest Sky?
Aron: Well even some of the better coming of age movies that have been coming out recently, it seemed like it was always a throwback to a John Hughes movie, which we loved growing up too, but that’s different than Stand By Me or The Outsiders or Breaking Away or At Close Range. Some of those ones that are a little darker. So for us, that was something that we felt like was lacking. Can we go a little darker with it? Through the research, this is darker. What they do up there and everything, it’s not a John Hughes movie, it’s different than that, so that was something that appealed to us. The darker teen movie.
Do you think these movies are relatable to all kids, even if they didn't have these elements of crime influencing their lives growing up?
Aron: I do, but any small town kid, they’re going to a party in a gravel pit or doing that sort of stuff there. That sort of harvest farming with friends. I’m sure in towns all across the Midwest, on their breaks from school, they’re doing some sort of farm labor so some can relate to that.
Gita: Even in present day, something like the vodka tampon scene for example. That we discovered in Maine and then we read it in the script and were like “This is really crazy,” and we talked to law enforcement to find out if it actually happened. Then we found out in the Midwest that there’s people doing the same thing. Word of mouth spreads with teens very quickly apparently.
What did you see in your two leads, Emory Cohen and Callan McAuliffe?
Gita: They’re brilliant actors and they have very different talents of how they get their performances out there.
Aron: Their processes couldn’t be further apart from each other, which was interesting to see them work off of each other. Emory was Casper 24/7. We never met Emory until we wrapped production. He was always Casper. Callan was very much “I’ll give you what’s in your script.” They were at opposite ends of the spectrum, but together they were so great. If you talked to them together, they were like a comedy duo. We just loved them hanging out together. They would genuinely make each other laugh and stuff on set and really did form this friendship that played well in the movie.
Gita: They’re both very talented and people consider this to be their breakout roles in a lot of ways so we’re really excited to see what they do next and we also hope that they just continue working with us.
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Stars including Sir Michael Caine, Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Damian Lewis helped raise more than $2.2 million (£1.4 million) for U.K. charity Save The Children at a glitzy London benefit on Wednesday (12Mar13). The star-studded crowd donned colourful outfits for the reggae-themed bash at the Roundhouse venue in Camden, where 500 guests gathered for a charity auction.
Madness and Jimmy Cliff were among the night's performers, while Jamaican reggae singer Dawn Penn teamed up with UB40's Ali Campbell for a rendition of Sonny and Cher track I Got You Babe.
Other guests included Bonham Carter's Burton and Taylor co-star Dominic West and Lewis' wife, Harry Potter star Helen McCrory.
The donations were pulled in through ticket sales and the auctioning of prizes such as a huge portrait of Bob Marley and a vacation at the Golden Eye Resort in Jamaica, the one-time home of James Bond writer Ian Fleming.

British actor Dominic Cooper was almost hit by a glass when co-star Lara Pulver threw it at his head while filming their Ian Fleming biopic. The two actors star in Fleming, with Cooper portraying the James Bond author and Pulver playing Ann O'Neill, who has an affair with the writer before later becoming his wife.
Their relationship was peppered with bust-ups, and during one argument scene, Pulver got caught up in the moment and went off-script, throwing a glass at Cooper's head.
Although he was angry about the unplanned move, Cooper loved his co-star's moment of improvisation.
He tells Britain's The Sun, "It was amazing and great and in the moment. I ducked this flying object and got up enraged. All that was real. You're reacting and responding. You're angry they've done that... even though what you've just said provoked them.
"It makes it all the more exciting and real than if it was all methodically staged piece by piece, then it wouldn't have been to exciting to watch."

British actor Dominic Cooper enjoyed filming aggressive sex scenes with co-star Lara Pulver in his new Ian Fleming biopic. In TV series Fleming, Cooper portrays the James Bond author over several decades of his life and his affair with Ann O'Neill - who later became his wife - features heavily.
The show includes several saucy sex scenes, and Cooper insists the kinkiness made the shoot with Pulver more interesting.
He tells Britain's The Sun, "It was rather exciting to do. More exciting than, 'They're so in love, just do a sex scene'.
"When sex scenes help the development of the story or the character, you have to throw yourself into them. You have to be brave and very trusting of who you're doing them with - and you have to really go for it.
"If it was too much and didn't feel right or if it was too aggressive or without any emotional content, we'd just change it. You have to give a good performance or it will look painful and not real.
"It was lust, it was the aggression of their lives, it was their anger and resentment towards one another... it was feeling through their sexuality."

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The holidays. It's a time of joy, giving, kindness, and time off of work. But all of that free time on your hands can sometimes seem intimidating, and going to see all of the big Oscar contenders in theaters can get pretty expensive, so we've decided to help you out by coming up with a better, less costly use of your time. We're sure there are plenty of television shows that you've been wanting to watch all year, but haven't had the time to check out. So, we've rounded up the best of them to give you a foolproof guide to catching up on television over the holidays. Consider it our gift to you.
The Ones You've "Been Meaning to Get To"With all of the shows currently airing on television, it's understandable that you wouldn't have had time to get to them all. But since you're likely to have some free time over the holidays, why not take the opportunity to catch up on those shows that you've had saved on your DVR for months, the ones you keep hearing your friends talk about, and the ones you want to start watching before they start winning all kinds of awards next month.
Rectify. When it comes to shows that you should be watching but just haven't gotten around to, Rectify is probably at the top of the list. Set in a small town in Georgia, the show picks up after Daniel Holden has been released from prison after spending 19 years on death row, and follows Daniel, his family, and the people who live Paulie as they try and deal with the aftermath of Daniel's release. The show has topped almost every television critic's end-of-the-year list, and has been declared to be a must-see. With only six episodes in the first season, it should be easy to catch up over the holidays - all of the episodes are available on DVD - so that you can finally check it off your list, and start feeling superior to your friends how haven't discovered it yet.
Broadchurch. You may have missed this British drama when it first aired at the end of the summer, but there's no excuse for not catching up on the mystery now. The show aims to portray how the death of a child in a small town affects all of the people living in Broadchurch, and shows both the human aspect of the murder as well as the investigation being performed by the two leading detectives, Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Olivia Coleman). If you're looking for a twist on the standard crme procedural, are interested in seeing Tennant take on a completely different role, or were one of the few people truly upset by AMC's decision to cancel The Killing (again), then Broadchurch is the show for you.
House of Cards. Sure, Orange Is the New Black was the runaway hit of the summer, but if there's any show currently streaming online that you haven't gotten around to yet, it's probably House of Cards. Kevin Spacey stars as Francis Underwood, the House Minority Whip, as he schemes, plots, and deals his way through Washington DC. Even if you don't get sucked into the fascinating and addicting world of underhanded politics, it's worth watching House of Cards to see Spacey chew the scenery and mastermind every move the Senate makes. Plus, there's an incredible supporting cast, including Robin Wright as Francis' equally devious wife Claire, Corey Stoll as Peter Russo, the representative who is juggling his position in the House with his numerous addictions, and Kate Mara as the ambitious journalist Zoe Barnes. Trust us, when the second season is released on Netflix on Valentine's Day, you don't want to be the only one out of the loop.
The Ones You Forgot AboutSometimes the best shows on television don't earn dedicated fanbases or win a clean sweep of awards. Sometimes, you pass them by when flipping the channels on the way to something else. Well, allow us to point out a few of those smaller shows that are a much better use of your time than yet another Law and Order marathon.
Shameless. Most of the time, when US networks remake British shows, the result is a disaster that alienates fans on both continents. But occasionally, the result is a show that is somehow better and more compelling than the original. This is the case with Shameless, the Showtime series that showcases the up and downs of the Gallagher family, warts and all. Led by the alcoholic, thieving Frank (William H. Macy), the Gallaghers do whatever they need to to survive life on the Southside of Chicago. High school dropout Fiona (Emmy Rossum) works odd jobs to care for her siblings, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) uses his intellect to scheme his way out f responsibility and into some money, Ian (Cameron Monaghan) is closeted and carrying on an affair with his married boss, Debbie (Emma Kenney) is trying to navigate middle school and reconcile her father and her sister, and Carl (Ethan Kutkosky) keeps setting fire to everything. It won't take much for you to be drawn into the Gallaghers' struggles, and after the first season, you too will begin bemoaning the injustice of Rossum's lack of Emmy nominations. And if you catch up now, you'll be ready to watch the fourth season when it premieres in January.
Trophy Wife. With a title that terrible, it's no wonder you put this ABC sitcom out of your head, but it has turned out to be one of the best new shows on television. Malin Ackerman stars as Kate, a former party girl who fell in love with and married and older man (Bradley Whitford), and now must balance her new role as a stepmother, his two ex-wives and her old, still-partying friends. The show is surprisingly accepting, and is more about a blended family learning to love all of its members than drawing humor from its fish-out-of-water premise. But let's be real, here: the real reason to keep watching is Bert, who, played by Albert Tsai, is arguably one of the mot consistently funny characters on television right now. The show's still in its first season, so there's not too much for you to catch on before it returns from hiatus in January; what better way to bond with your own family than by watching this hilariously dysfunctional one try and balance it all?
The Hour. Part espionage thriller, part behind-the-scenes look at the makings of television and entirely brilliant, The Hour is probably the best show you've never seen. The British drama focuses on Bel Rowley (Romola Garai), the producer tasked with getting The Hour, the BBC's first nightly news program off the ground in the 1950s. She's joined by her good friend, Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw), who s more interested in integrity and chasing the story than he is with catering to the network bosses, Lix Storm (Anna Chancellor), the worldly foreign correspondent who acts as Bel's mentor, and Hector Madden (Dominic West), the program's cocky new anchor. The acting is incredible, the writing is exquisite, and the stories are exciting and compelling, and once you've started The Hour, you'll understand just why it's "the hour you can't miss". Although it's no longer airing, having been cancelled after its second season ended on a cliff-hanger, but it's easy enough to find online,a nd is sure to be the perfect way to spend a few hours of your time.
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The Ones With The Hardcore FanbasesSometimes, a television show connects so strongly with a particular audience that its fans become more than just causal viewers; instead, they feel the need to talk about their favorite show whenever they get the chance, constantly recommending that you watch it, and refusing to take no for answer. Well, sometimes, those intense fans are right, and the shows they love are actually really good, even if their fanaticism may put you off. Here are the recommendations you should be taking seriously.
Orphan Black. This is probably the millionth time someone has recommended that you give Orphan Black a shot, but that's because it really is worth a watch. Starring Tatiana Maslany as seven different and distinct characters, the show is probably best described as a sci-fi mystery as well as being one of the most addicting shows currently on television. The plot follows Sarah Manning, an English grifter who watches a woman - who looks just like her - commit suicide by jumping in front of a train. After Sarah decides to adopt the dead woman's identity, she is thrown into a major conspiracy that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about herself. his show definitely lives up to all of its hype, and once you watch it, you too will find yourself with a brand new favorite actress.
Sleepy Hollow. When Sleepy Hollow was first announced this fall, nobody thought it would turn out to be a decent show. And sure, it might be a lot more ridiculous and campy than many of the shows on this list, but if you're looking for a fun, entertaining way to spend some time this holiday, then this is the show for you. The off-the-wall plot, which centers around Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison), who has been sent forward in time 200 years to modern-day Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he must team up with Detective Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) to stop the impending apocalypse, is balanced by compelling, engaging performances. It's got the perfect combination of self-awareness, goofy adventures, supernatural spookiness and well-rounded characters to make it perfect holiday comfort viewing.
Bob's Burgers. You may have noticed us recommend this show before, but we strongly believe this little show about the weirdest, funniest, most accepting family on television is one everyone should watch. Every episode is hilarious, well-acted and original, and it's rare to see a family on television who are so loving and accepting of one another, from Linda's inventive songs to Louise's appetite for chaos and destruction to Tina's hormonal awkwardness to Gene... well, being Gene. Just trust us on this one, and give it a try. You won't regret it.
The One You Gave Up On That Got Better
The Mindy Project. There's no denying that the first season of The Mindy Project was fraught with issues. However, when it returned for a second season this fall, it brought with it sharper jokes, better paced episodes, more character development, and a cast overhaul, all of which resulted in it being a much stronger show than it was before. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) is just as much of a mess as she was before, but she has wittier one-liners, and she has settled in to a much more comfortable rapport with her co-workers, who include a newly-added Adam Pally as the frat bro doctor Peter Prentiss. If you liked or were indifferent to the show before, the holidays are a perfect time to give the new episodes a chance, because you just might find that the show you gave up on has gotten better when you weren't watching.
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Actor Dominic Cooper and the producers of a new Ian Fleming biopic have warned James Bond fans their portrayal of the author will be "sexed up" when it airs next year (14). The Mamma Mia! actor will star as the creator of the world's most famous spy in Sky Atlantic's biopic series Fleming, opposite Lara Pulver, who will play his wife Ann.
Cooper has warned that the writers have taken "huge liberties" in retelling Fleming's wartime heroics, choosing to highlight the more sensational accounts of his bravery during World War II.
He tells Britain's The Times newspaper, "There's what he says he did, there's what his biographers say he did, and then there's what we say he did."
Later episodes of the four-part series show the author firing a machine gun at enemy troops and fighting hand-to-hand with German soldiers, but it is thought Fleming only had limited battlefield experience and spent much of his time behind a desk.
The show's director Mat Whitecross, who previously worked on The Road To Guantanamo, says everything depicted in the show is based on fact to some degree, but concedes they have embellished the author's life.
He says, "Everything is based on something real, but we have sexed it up at times. If you look at other versions of the biography, he is deskbound, but that doesn't make great drama. He didn't have any fisticuffs with Nazis, but it felt like it would be better if he did."
Fleming is scheduled to air on Sky Atlantic in February (14).

Glee fans came together to mourn the show's late star Cory Monteith during an unofficial convention in the U.K. over the weekend (13-14Jul13). Devotees travelled from across the country to attend the three-day event, which was held just outside of London, but the convention was marred by the shocking news of Monteith's death on Saturday (13Jul13).
The event, which featured appearances from castmembers including Curt Mega, Riker Lynch and Dominic Barnes, became a memorial for Monteith as tearful fans celebrated his life and work.
Convention-goer Chloe-Louise Bond, 22, tells the Associated Press, "We all woke up to hear the story, and no one really wanted to believe it was true. Walking into the main room (at the convention), you could just feel the tragedy in the air, absolute strangers became a family right in that moment. Everyone was crying and hugging and just trying to get over the shock."
Devotees were seen hugging, weeping and singing songs from the show, and the actors shared their memories of working with the late star during a panel discussion.
Curt Mega, who played Dalton Academy student Nick, told the audience about his time on the Glee Live! Tour, revealing Monteith wanted to shun the offer of first class travel in favour of riding with the less famous castmembers on the tour bus, saying, "All the main cast would fly on a jet everywhere they went and we were like, on a bus... He (Monteith) came over one night and was like 'I heard your bus is super cool and I want to check it out'. He was like, 'Dang! I don't wanna be on a plane any more, I wanna crash with you guys'."
The talk ended with a minute's silence held in honour of Monteith, followed by a group hug.
Fans in Canada have also been memorialising the actor by leaving floral tributes and messages of condolence outside the hotel in Vancouver, where his body was found on Saturday, while Monteith's representatives have urged devotees to show their sadness by making a donation to a charity he helped launch last year (12).
Donations can be made to the Project Limelight Society, an organisation which offers free performing arts classes for children from Vancouver. Monteith launched the charity with his former acting teacher, Maureen Webb, who was one of the last people to see the star before his death as they enjoyed dinner together on Thursday (11Jul13).

Adele fans have been clamoring to learn when their beloved singer would be making a return to the stage. Since giving birth to her son in October, Adele has basically been MIA from the music scene. And while she accepted an award for her hit song "Skyfall" at the 2013 Golden Globes, the 24-year-old musician has yet to take the stage and perform in the United States since giving birth. Well, that's all about to change. It was announced Thursday that Adele will be performing "Skyfall" live at the 2013 Academy Awards in February, marking the first time the she has ever performed the single live and her first U.S. TV performance since the 2012 Grammy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
"Skyfall," written by Adele and Paul Epworth, is nominated in the Best Original Song category this year. It is also the first James Bond theme song to make it to Billboard's Top 10 chart, and the first to be up for an Oscar since 1981 ("For Your Eyes Only").
"It's an honor to be nominated and terrifyingly wonderful to be singing in front of people who have captured my imagination over and over again,” Adele said. “It's something I've never experienced and probably only ever will once!"
The forces behind the Oscars are just as excited about Adele's upcoming performance. "We have enormous respect for Adele’s unique artistry as a songwriter and a singer,” the award show's producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said. “She is currently one of the most successful recording artists in the world, and we believe that her performance of ‘Skyfall’ will be an exciting Oscar moment for audiences watching at the Dolby Theatre and on television screens around the world.”
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The British actor will take on the lead role in Fleming, a new series based on the author behind the 007 franchise.
The show will be a "no holds barred look" at the novelist's real-life story, which is said to be as "exciting, eventful and sexually charged as his famous creation," according to a representative for the programme.
Fleming worked as a journalist and naval intelligence officer before publishing his first Bond book, Casino Royale, in 1952.
He went on to write 11 more 007 novels and two short-story collections based on his famous superspy.
Cooper says of his new role, "Stepping into the shoes of the spy who not only created 007 but fantasised about being him has to be every actor's dream."
Fleming will air on Britain's Sky Atlantic channel later this year (13).

Dr. No, Goldfinger, The Man With the Golden Gun — the villains that threaten James Bond are so vital to the 007 franchise their names (or descriptions) are often put right in the title. Everything about the Bond villains is larger than life, from their monikers to their schemes to their accents. And, as such, their identities often become entwined with their nationalities. Second World War allegiances and secret Nazi heritages are key to making the antagonists the Big Bad Evildoers that they are.
But the question is, is there one country that is more evil than all the rest? Whence do all the Bond baddies hail? It must be Germany, right? Or Russia? All the bad guys during the Cold War era were obviously from Russia. Right? Wrong! We got out our calculators and did some math and now know — because science — that the world's most evil country is…
Great Britain! Yep, you better believe it. The nation that brought us fish and chips, Cockney accents, and Victoria Beckham (née Spice) also delivered 4.5 Bond villains. Russia is a close second (with three) and Germany is not too far behind (1.5). Don't believe us? Here's the rundown:
Great Britain: 4.5
Auric Goldfinger,Goldfinger (While Goldfinger is presumed to be of German descent, he is in fact a British citizen. In Ian Fleming's novel he is Latvian, but for our purposes only the movies matter.)
Francisco Scaramanga, The Man With the Golden Gun
Elliot Carver, Tomorrow Never Dies
Elektra King, The World is Not Enough
Gustav Graves, Die Another Day (As Graves was formerly North Korean Tan-Gun Moon, he only receives half a point.)
Russia: 3
Colonel Rosa Klebb, From Russia With Love
Georgi Koskov, The Living Daylights
Renard, The World is Not Enough
Germany: 1.5
Max Zorin, A View to Kill
Dr. Julius No, Dr. No (Dr. No is half German, half Chinese, so he therefore gets half a point for his German heritage.)
Afghanistan: 1
Kamal Khan, Octopussy
Caribbean: 1
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big, Live and Let Die (Of course we know that the Caribbean isn't a country, but Mr. Big is from the fictional isle of San Monique.)
Cossacks: 1
Alec Trevelyan, GoldenEye
Greece: 1
Aristotle Kristato, For Your Eyes Only
Italy: 1
Emilio Largo, Thunderball
Poland: 1
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, From Russia with Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only
South America: 1
Franz Sanchez, License to Kill (It is only implied that Sanchez is Colombian, but not made explicitly clear.)
Sweden: 1
Karl Stromberg, The Spy Who Loved Me
United States of America: 1
Brad Whitaker, The Living Daylights
China: .5
Dr. Julius No, Dr. No (Dr. No's mother was Chinese; his father a German missionary.)
North Korea: .5
Colonel Tan-Gun Moon, Die Another Day (Due to a DNA transplant, Moon later becomes Gustave Graves; therefore he receives half a point.)
Unknown: 4
Hugo Dax, Moonraker (Believed to be German, but not stated)
Le Chiffre, Casino Royale (Believed to be Albanian, but not stated)
Dominic Greene, Quantum of Solace
Raoul Silva, Skyfall
Food for thought: Even though Ernst Stavro Blofeld is just one man, he has made appearances (even though some were small) in six Bond films. Could this make Poland the most evil country? Discuss.
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